GreyEyedGhost

AR without cameras is kind of pointless, imo. The creep factor is huge, though. It would be reasonable (not easy, but reasonable) if people could curate what information about themselves was available to whom, but that would preclude the corporations having access to whatever information they could glean about everyone. And if they have it, why couldn’t they provide it to whoever is willing to pay them a small monthly fee for it?

Until that problem is solved, AR is going to be a very tough sell.

The fact those zeroes didn’t matter enough is the interesting part. I’d be happy with either 80 million or billion, the fact they kind of shrugged off this experiment is both mind blowing and completely unsurprising at the same time.

Holy crap, $300 for the lols is a bit much.

I feel like I need to go to Seychelles and have a coconut now. The butt stamp would look great in a passport.

Well, that’s impressive. I’ll remember that for the image embed.

You can’t say all that and not post pictures, so here they are.

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What I’m saying is, either civilization is going to fail or it isn’t. If it is, urban centers are going to collapse and a lot of people are going to die and most gasoline cars will be useless in a couple years. If it isn’t, utilizing the frameworks of civilization to handle disasters will be as effective as anything else we can do, hence no need for extreme resilience (growing you own food, canning, making your own clothing) or rugged individualism.

I understand the mindset, but civilization hinges on working together. Being resilient enough to survive on your own is rarely going to involve growing some significant portion of your own calories for an urban population. Being handy will certainly help in general, and having a method to repel bad actors are useful in a complete collapse, but relying on gasoline powered vehicles doesn’t make sense if you think society is going to fail.